2009 Senate Bill 459

Require notification of suspended license over “bad driver fees”

Introduced in the Senate

April 23, 2009

Introduced by Sen. Deborah Cherry (D-26)

To require the Secretary of State to notify a person in writing whose drivers license is being suspended because of failure to pay the penalties imposed by the ”driver responsibility fees or “bad driver tax” law, which are tacked on to various traffic violations and paid to the state (rather than a court). This tax was adopted in 2003 to raise revenue so as avoid spending cuts in that year’s and subsequent state government budgets.

Referred to the Committee on Transportation